The Postman Only Rings Once

In the upcoming film, GRINDHOUSE, Directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez present two full-length movies in a new horror double feature stylized in the old 1970s 'grindhouse' exploitation manner.

Now AintitCool News is reporting a very clever promotion that the filmmakers and the SXSW film festival are doing, where they are calling for trailers for 'fake' grindhouse movies (under 2 minutes in length).

This contest struck enough of a chord in me that I decided to give writing a concept a shot. And thus THE POSTMAN ONLY RINGS ONCE was born...

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Cue Music open: Love, American Style, remixed slightly.

Voice Over reads: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays The Postman from the swift completion of his appointed rounds. But in his neighborhood, he only rings once...And you'd better not answer!

We’re inside a house as an attractive woman parades around in next to nothing. Then the sickness blasts onto the screen as “The Postman” rings, then kicks down the door and attacks the woman. Quick cuts between a series of bloody rapes and the postman interacting with the neighborhood (getting along with dogs, children, etc).

All hell breaks loose though at the end, when a woman fights back by grabbing a letter and giving The Postman a paper cut across the face.

Cut to a woman racing down the street as The Postman chases her in his Mail Truck. Close up on his face through the windshield. He smiles in a sickeningly plastic and malicious way.

Cut to THE POSTMAN smiling and talking to local man:
“You know, you just can’t get this kind of service from Fed Ex.”

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Toysrevil has a hell of an idea himself and it looks like he's been developing it for quite a while. Check it out. It deserves to be noticed.

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